Platform-car.



No. 658,525. Patented Sept. 25, I900.

E. 0. use.

PLATFORM CAR.

(Application filed. May 31, 1900.)

(No Model.)

NKTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD C. HUSE, OF SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

PLATFORM-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 658,525, datedSeptember 25, 1900. Application filed May 8 1, 1900. Serial No. 18,581.(No model.)

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, EDWARD O. HUsE,of Somerville, county of Middlesex,State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Platform -Oars,of which the following description, in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, isa specification, like letters on the drawings representinglike parts.

This invention has for its object to provide a platform-car withsuitable means whereby a wagon may be drawn onto the car and its wheelstrigged and afterward drawn off of the car.

This invention is of especial advantage in connection with suburbanexpress service, for by its use a loaded express-wagon may be drawn ontoa car at any point en route and the horse detached, and at any otherpoint another horse may be hitched to the wagon anddraw it offof thecar; yet the invention of course may be put to many other purposes.

Tlxe invention consists in providing the platform of a car with pivotedrunways at each end, which may be swung on their pivots so as to projectfrom the end of the platform in order that the Wagon may be drawn ontothe platform and afterward may be turned over upon the platform of thecar and serve as trigs for the wheels of the wagon. There may be at eachend of the platform three such runways arranged in parallelism, the twooutside ones being used forthe wheels of the wagon and the intermediateone for the horse, or any other number may be provided, as desired. Therunways, which receive upon them the wheels, are arranged to not onlyswing on their pivots, but also move bodily relatively to the platform,so as to pass ber eath the whees aft er the wagon has been drawn ontothe platform and trig them.

Figure 1 shows in side elevation a platformcar provided with meansembodying this invention, wnerebya wagon may be drawn onto and off ofthe platform and its wheels trigged. Fig. 2 is a plan View of theplatform-car shown in Fig. 1.

a represents the platform-car, and it will be provided with suitablemeans whereby it may be attached to an electric or other car, as aoffset ends.

trailing-car, and be thereby conveyed from place to place.

At each end of the platform of the car run ways are pivoted, and, asherein shown, three such runways, as b, c, and d, are provided at eachend of the car. The runways b, c, and d are arranged in parallelism anddisposed at suitable distances apart. The two outside runways b and dwill be so disposed as to receive the wheels of the wagon and theintermediate runway 0 used for the horse. The intermediate runway c ispivoted at c to the end of the platform. The two outside runways and dare also pivoted to the end of the platform; but in order that saidrunways may be employed as trigs for the Wheels of the wagon and bemoved into position be neath said wheels they are provided withpivot-pins b d, which enter slots or guideways 19 d formed or providedin suitable brackets or supports b 01 said slots or guideways beingherein shown as formed horizontally for a portion of their length andhaving I do not desire, however,to limit my invention to any particularmanner of pivotally connecting the runways to the platform nor to thenumber of runways employed, so long as they are adapted to serve astrigs for the wheels in addition to serving as runways. When the runwaysare swung so as to project from the platform, as represented by fulllines, the Wagon may be drawn onto the platform by the horse, and thensaid runways may be swung on their pivots over upon the platform and therunways b and (1 moved inward bodily, so as to project beneath and trigthe wheels of the wagon.

The brackets or supports 1 d projecting above the surface of theplatform, serve as guides for the wheels when drawing the wagon off ofthe platform.

I claim- Y 1. The combination with a platform-car, of run ways pivotallyconnected to the ends thereof which may be turned over upon thecarplatform into position to serve as trigs for the wheels of a wagon onthe platform, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a platform-car, of

runways c pivotally connected to each end of In testimony whereof I havesigned my the platform, and runways b and dalso =pivname tothisspecification in the presence of orally connected to each end of theplatform two subscribing witnesses.

at opposite sides of said runways c, and bodily EDWARD C. HUSE.

5 movable relatively to said platform to trig Witnesses:

the wheels of the Wagon when turned over BVJ. NOYES, upon the platform,substantially as described. H. B. DAVIS.

